Sentences with phrase «marginal seats only»

Sorry but elections are won in marginal seats only.

«A recent survey by the Countryside Alliance, a pressure group, found that of 120 Tory candidates in marginal seats only one was against repealing the ban and he said that he would abstain on any vote.»

Not exact matches

Not only is he a liberal Tory and a Remainer, he is also an accomplished and energetic campaigner - and the author of a book about «how to win a marginal seat».

As ever, though, national polls can only tell us so much — it would be in the marginal seats that A.V. would make a decisive difference.

Not only can the state of play in the marginals look rather different from the national polls, different kinds of marginal seat can look rather different from each other.

The pamphlet, by the Labour - affiliated Fabian Society and Policy Network thinktank, admits Labour has lost ground among the DE bottom social group but says it will only restore its electoral fortunes if it performs better among white - collar and skilled workers, who are strongly represented in marginal seats in the South and Midlands.

Orkney and Shetland is the only Lib Dem Scottish seat and also the party's closest marginal, beating the SNP by just 817 votes.

We have often had, I think, these relationships going only one way (only helping the marginal), where perhaps what we could do would be to have the marginal helping the safe seat in less crucial times and safe helping marginal in run - up to elections.

In most seats this is only a marginal difference — in Lib Dem held seats it can be substantial, as repeatedly shown in polls of Lib Dem marginal seats using a two - stage national - then - constituency voting intention questions (see here by Lord Ashcroft, and here by YouGov).

But Labour lost control of Derby, where the Jeremy Corbyn - supporting Chris Williamson is an MP, and lost Nuneaton and Bedworth, classic Westminster marginal territory, for only the second time in 44 years after the Tories gained eight seats.

At the weekend they upped the ante with Alan Partridge's alter ego not only starring in an ad, but also hitting the campaign trail in a number of marginal seats with Labour MP Tom Watson.

There are much more obvious differences between different battlegrounds (that is, between seats that are Con - v - Lab battles and seats that are Con - v - LD battles), so I've looked at only the Con - v - Lab battleground — those marginal seats with the Conservatives in first place ahead of Labour.

Marginal polls used to only come along occasionally, varied a lot, polled different groups of seats, and didn't often happen right before elections so weren't tested against reality, meaning methods weren't finessed and improved over time in the same way national polls are.

Things are looking rather less bad in the 8 most marginal seats we hold against the Lib Dems — though only because the Lib Dems» vote share has fallen further than ours has.

In only two seats was the change statistically significant, both in Labour's favour: Stroud, where Labour have a high - profile candidate in David Drew, the former MP; and Warrington South, where the constituency question produced a boost for the Lib Dems consistent with the fact that it was at the last election almost a three - way marginal.

They might secure only a handful of MPs (thanks to a voting system that many believe is increasingly out of date) but their surging popularity could still disrupt Tory and Labour battles in key marginal seats.

If Corbyn's young support is concentrated among ethnic minorities and the university educated, that will only help him in certain marginals - most seats with lots of ethnic minorities, university students or metropolitan young professionals are already safely Labour.

If history is any guide we might expect the Conservatives to do a little better as most of the battleground seats have new Conservative incumbents, but only by a very small amount — the reality is that Con - Lab marginals do tend to behave in pretty much the same way as the nation as a whole does.

In fact the only person to be accorded vox - pop quote status during the radio news highlights: Labour MP Graham Stringer... While «not in a position» to pass judgement on Mr Woolas» conduct during the campaign - in which he was accused of stirring up racial tensions to win votes - Mr Stringer said election battles in marginal seats were not «Sunday - school outings».

RANDOM STAT: Alarmingly the Tories had a 10 - point lead in Labour - held marginal seats, though take this with a pinch of salt as the sample size was only 186 people.

Both forerunner seats were last represented by Labour MPs, with Ince having been served by only four such members since 1906, however with Ormskirk having a mixed and longer history as a more marginal seat.

There were only ten marginal seats where they came second to the Conservatives in 2015, losing by less than 10 percentage points.

Not only is this unfair, but the inequity that comes about because of the division between safe seats and marginal seats also has a corrosive effect on democracy.

You have implied that you are only interested in fighting safe Conservative seats, rather than marginal seats.

In 2005 this was one of the most marginal seats in the country, held by Labour «s Derek Wyatt by only 79 votes.

I have my doubts about the reliability of marginal seat polls since the average number of voters polled per constituency is only about 10.

Today's survey of marginal seats reveals the sort of data usually only seen by campaign strategists deep inside party headquarters.

This was indeed a Tory hold, in line with what happened in most of the Conservative held marginal seats outside London Labour were hoping to gain - the only exceptions outside the capital were Wirral West, City of Chester, Dewsbury, Lancaster and Fleetwood and Wolverhampton South West - most of those were down to demographic changes and university influence.

Lord Ashcroft, the only pollster regularly to poll in marginals, predicts a Tory majority of 142, and Tory seat count of nearly 400, even after the recent poll narrowing.

He said 85 % of Tory constituency agents were based in safe seats with only 19 full - time agents in marginal seats.

They also need to watch their seats in Brunswick Park and East Barnet which are only held by marginal majorities (though the trends there are favourable to Labour).

If Osborne represented a marginal seat it would imply that he only won it in 2010 so he obviously could not be chancellor having only been an MP for less than 4 years.

Although rear - seat riders have a comfortable perch, their personal space is impinged at the extremities, with headroom only marginal and little extra space to wiggle their toes.

The only two items that I'm not thrilled with are the front seat comfort, which is marginal in the base car that I'm leasing (the front seats are thin and not well padded) and the synthetic cloth materials used on the center console cover and armrests, which would appear easier to stain over time as opposed to vinyl.

«Still it's encouraging that the seat / head restraint combinations in only 7 of the models we evaluated didn't make it to the dynamic test because of marginal geometry,» Lund says.

However, the car did not score points for its low - speed AEB system as the whiplash protection of the front seats was only marginal.

Both cars offer only marginal comfort for rear - seat passengers, even though the Mustang GT has a slight edge in that area.

Instead, rear crash protection is rated acceptable, marginal, or poor (Honda reports that the seat / head restraints in the only Civic model with electronic stability control wouldn't be rated good).

Its LATCH, child seat anchor system, scored only a «Marginal,» one grade up from the lowest score of «Poor.»

«It's encouraging that only 12 of the 58 seat / head restraint combinations we evaluated didn't make it to the testing stage because of marginal or poor geometry,» Lund says.